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HAMLET (Almereyda)

Dir. Michael Almereyda. USA 1999. 106 mins.  An audacious adaptation set in the high-tech world of the Denmark Corporation in New York in 2000. The language works surprisingly well and Ethan Hawke is a decent Hamlet and there are some fine touches of humour throughout.

 

HAMLET (Olivier)

The Laurence Olivier version is still the best known.

 

HAMLET (Nicol Williamson)

Made in 1969 also with Marianne Faithfull.

 

HAMLET (Zefferelli)

Mel Gibson and Glenn Close in this 1990 version.

 

HAMLET(BBC)

This BBC TV version at 3 hours 20 minutes is the most complete. With Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Eric Porter and Lalla Ward.

 

HAMMETT

A Wim Wenders private eye thriller.

 

THE ACCUSED

When an idle and penniless socialite visits a wealthy couple living in harmony, he triggers a series of events which drastically disrupt all their lives. Best British film of 1988. James Wilby.

 

HANNAH AND HER SISTERS

Woody Allen film humorously touching upon life, death, lust, love, adultery, childbirth, family relations etc, etc.

 

HANCOCK:

THE BLOOD DONOR, THE MISSING PAGE, TWELVE ANGRY MEN.
3 classic shows from Tony Hancock's historic BBC TV series.

 

HANCOCK:

THE LIFT, THE LADIES MAN, LORD BYRON LIVED HERE.
More episodes from the BBC TV series.

 

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT

The Beatles. A time-tripping voyage back to those days of the happy innocence of Beetlemania.

 

HARD TIMES

A double cassette version of Dickens' story. A Granada TV production with an impressive line-up of actors and actresses.

 

HEAT and DUST

India, today and a generation ago, as two young women become fascinated for a continent where the lust for power, violence and passion overshadow the facade of British respectability. Julie Christie.

 

HEATWAVE

Australian film about an unscrupulous property developer who wants to build an amazing development and rides roughshod over residents.

 

HEAVEN's GATE

The film that ruined United Artists. A masterpiece to some and a disaster according to others. Basically about the battle between cattlemen and sheep farmers. Dir. Michael Cimino. Kris Kristofferson.

 

HELL IN THE PACIFIC

Starting off as enemies, US pilot and Japanese pilot, stranded on an island, find they need each other to survive.

 

HENRY IV  PART ONE

The BBC TV version with Jon Finch, Anthony Quayle and David Gwillim. 149 minutes. Dir. David Giles.

 

HENRY IV  PART TWO

The BBC TV version with the same cast as Part one. 152 minutes.

 

HENRY V.  BBC TV

David Gwillim,Alec McCowen and Josceline Boisseau.

 

HENRY V.  (Olivier)

The classic version with the famous charge to the music of Walton, reminiscent of Eisenstein in Alexander Nevsky.

 

HENRY V.  (Branagh)

The most recent film version with Paul Scofield, Derek Jacobi, Ian Holm and Kenneth Branagh. Also Judi Dench and Emma Thompson.

 

HENRY VII and his SIX WIVES

An abridged version of the six part BBC TV series. with Keith Michell, Donald Pleasance. Dir. Waris Hussein.

 

HIGH ANXIETY

A Mel Brooks take off of the psychiatric world. Helping Brooks in his crazy and camp antics is Madeline Kahn & Harvey Korman.

 

HIGH HOPES

A very British comedy by Mike Leigh about life in London at the back of Kings Cross station.

 

HIGH NOON

A classic Western. Retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer is returning to town. Gary Cooper. Dir. Stanley Kramer.

 

HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

The film which brought director Alain Resnais world renown.  French dialogue with EST.

 

HISTORY OF THE WORLD Part 1

Riotous Mel Brook's comedy that spoofs world history from Stone Man to French Revolution. Moses, Nero, Louis XVI etc.

 

H.M.S. PINAFORE

The Gilbert & Sullivan operetta with Peter Marshall Frankie Howerd, Della Jones and with the London Symphony Orchestra.

 

HOBSON's CHOICE

Charles Laughton is the drunken tyrannical Lancashire bootmaker brought to heel by his tough daugher (Brenda De Banzie).

 

THE HOFFNUNG FESTIVAL CONCERT

An evening of symphonic caricature commemorating Gerard Hoffnung who died in 1959. Music and humour.

 

HOPE and GLORY

John Boorman's semi-autobiographical evocation of the war and the evacuation of children from the cities. Sarah Miles.

 

HOTEL DU LAC

A BBC TV classic adaptation of the Anita Brookner prize-winning novel of an elegant hotel, the atmosphere and the characters who live in it

 

THE HOUSEHOLDER.

Merchant Ivory film set in India. A shy schoolteacher marries and only gets to know his wife in their first year together. A story told in domestic and affectionate terms. Shashi Kapoor & Leela Naidu.

 

HOW TO IRRITATE PEOPLE

John Cleese, Michael Palin, Connie Booth & Tim Brooke-Taylor demonstrate with sketches how to do just this.

 

HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE

Monroe, Bacall & Grable as 3 fashion models who pool resources with the hope of ensnaring rich husbands.

 

HOWARDS END

Artistic adaption of E.M.Forster's novel by the Merchant-Ivory team. A story of two families drawn together in spite of vastly differing backgrounds and ambitions. Antony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson.

 

HULLABALOO OVER GEORGE AND BONNIES PICTURES

Peggy Ashcroft, Vicor Banerjee & Safed Jaffrey  in a Merchant Ivory romp through Royal India.

 

THE HUNCH BACK OF NOTRE DAME

Charles Laughton in the famous 1939 version.


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